Member Organisations

AIVL has member organisations in each of Australia’s states and territories.

Canberra Alliance for Harm Minimisation and Advocacy (CAHMA)

ACT’s peer-based drug user and drug treatment consumer organisation. The Connection is CAHMA’s Aboriginal program run by and for the Aboriginal community of Canberra. CAHMA and The Connection seek to engage people with the alcohol and other drug (AOD) sector and related community and social services to improve health and well being of people who use drugs. CAHMA runs a drop-in centre offering the community peer education and health promotion activities, naloxone training, case management and related programs.

Harm Reduction Victoria

Harm Reduction Victoria is powered by the strength of the living and lived experience of their team, members and board. Founded in 1987 as part of the community response to the threat of HIV, HRVic aims to bring together our communities to improve the rights and wellbeing of people who use drugs. Peer education and community development are as important in their work today as they were when they formed. Harm Reduction Victoria also undertake health promotion, develop resources and offer practical support, services and advocacy for our communities.

Hepatitis SA

Hepatitis SA NSP Peer Projects consists of a team of people with personal knowledge or experience of injecting drug use who provide a range of harm reduction services to people who inject drugs. Our harm reduction peers can be accessed at a number of high volume NSP sites across metropolitan Adelaide.

Northern Territory AIDS and Hepatitis Council Inc (NTAHC)

NTAHC is the key non-government organisation working in the area of BBV’s, education and support in the NT, with offices in Darwin and Alice Springs. Also delivers a range of programs aimed at preventing the transmission of BBV’s in urban and remote communities via health promotion and one on one care and support. NTAHC staff are recruited from within the priority populations with which the organisation works.

NSW Users and AIDS Association (NUAA)

The NSW Users and AIDS Association (NUAA) is a peer-based drug user organisation that is governed, staffed and led by people with lived and living experience of drug use. NUAA provides education, practical support, information and advocacy as well as innovative harm reduction services for people in NSW, working with a broad range of stakeholders and partners to support system change. NUAA has a dedicated team of Aboriginal Peer Support Workers located in the Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District.

Peer Based Harm Reduction WA

Peer Based Harm Reduction WA (formerly known as WASUA) provides non-judgmental peer-based support, information and education, and health and harm reduction services aimed at reducing the transmission of Blood Borne Viruses and Sexually Transmitted Infections, and preventing overdose and other harms associated with drug use in WA

QuIVAA

Operating on a peer-based philosophy, QuIVAA encourages and supports current and former People Who Use Drugs (PWUD) to be active and provide input into strategic responses and policy development in relation to drug use in Queensland.

QuIHN

QuIHN is an independent not-for-profit providing a range of specialist social and medical services relating to alcohol, other drug use and mental health. Operating Queensland-wide, QuIHN provides programs across a continuum of care comprising of harm reduction programs, therapeutic programs and primary medical care.

Tasmanian Users and Health Support League (TUHSL)

Is an unfunded, peer-based, community organisation, member of TUHSL work to advance the health of people who use drugs across Tasmania through both individual and systematic advocacy activities. TUHSL has a strong harm reduction focus and aims to prevent BBV transmission, address stigma and discrimination, provide practical support, education and advocacy.

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